A bunch of really old people crashed my server.

[jonsidneyb]

A bunch of really old people crashed my server.


Somewhere around 18k 110 year old people from the looks of it ripped it right down to the ground.

 

[Kim]

Golly Jeepers, those Senior h4x0rs are the dickens!

 

[jonsidneyb]

Well, here is what happened.

This is my first New Years on vB. vB thinks that 18k of my members was born on Jan 1 1901. The forum wants to put them on the birthday list and send them a nice message.

MySQL said "Thou Shalt Not"
MySQL Error : Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

So I get thousands upon thousands error messages and along with the

"got a packet bigger then max"

Database error in vBulletin : mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Too many connections

 

[Dean]

Can I assume you turned off the sending of birthday emails now?

 

[jonsidneyb]

I can't get into the admin panel. Too many connections

 

[Kim]

Oh no

That really sucks Jon.

 

[Peggy]

WOW, that's pretty wild.

 

[jonsidneyb]

Well, I got in and turned off the emails. Still getting errors. I think it is trying to change the display and cannot.

Trying to figure out how to turn of display birthdays.

 

[rollthebones]

Database error in vBulletin : mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Too many connections

I don't understand why PHP errors use the anchor tag like that.

 

[jonsidneyb]

I don't have a clue.

I got the birthday things turned off but have a new problem.

 

[jonsidneyb]

vb4_post Check Warning: Table is marked as crashed and last repair failed
vb4_post Check Error: Found key at page -1 that points to record outside datafile
vb4_post Check Error: Corrupt

 

[Paul B]

You can do a DB repair from cPanel, assuming you have that.

 

[jonsidneyb]

yep.... I will give that a shot.

I never thought birthdays would be my downfall

Well, this is my very first New Years on vB.

 

[Paul B]

I've already had 7 emails wishing me a happy birthday

What's your forum again?

 

[jonsidneyb]

EDCForums.com

 

[jonsidneyb]

Mine tried to send 18k of them. Ouch.

 

[jonsidneyb]

I think I need a data base guru. I have destroyed my forum.

 

[Paul B]

You can always try restoring from a backup, assuming you have a recent one, if a repair doesn't work.

 

[jonsidneyb]

If I have too I think it is about a week old

 

[Dean]

You have your forum turned off, with a message stating there is technical difficulties (if the forum is running that well)... and the forum is still not online for people to try to post. Right?